{"id":2219,"date":"2010-12-12T01:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2010-12-12T01:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:34:50","slug":"sint-niklaas-twin-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Sint Niklaas Twin Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sint Niklaas the yearly twin town conference is taking place this year. That is\u00a0where the grouping of five twinned towns: Abingdon, Colmar (France), Lucca (Italy), Sint Niklaas (Belgium), and Schongau (Germany) all send delegates to discuss a theme important for the EU &#8211; who \u00a0help fund the twin town conference.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10121102.jpg\" alt=\"St Niklaas\" \/><br \/>\nMichael Matthews who has been involved in twinning since the 1967, and Brian Read, also on the Abingdon and District twinning committee, were interviewed about the \u00a0conference for regional Belgium television&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10121101.jpg\" alt=\"St Niklaas\" \/><br \/>\nThe Sint Niklaas 2010\u00a0conference topic was about Child Poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Each town presented a paper. Then delegates visited a Red Cross Centre for refugees seeking asylum in Sint Niklaas. Only 1 out of 4 people going through the strict Belgium process become a refugee. Others are just let out on the street and have to find their own way back to their own country or try elsewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Britain, \u00a0is the only country that does not belong to the same asylum checking process as the rest of Europe where fingerprints and the checking process is shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sint Niklaas the yearly twin town conference is taking place this year. That is\u00a0where the grouping of five twinned towns: Abingdon, Colmar (France), Lucca (Italy), Sint Niklaas (Belgium), and Schongau (Germany) all send delegates to discuss a theme important for the EU &#8211; who \u00a0help fund the twin town conference. Michael Matthews who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}